Ron

When were you born?

Was it in 1997 or 1977?

If it was 1997, you would now be 20 years older than if it was 1977 - according 
to your logic.

> Frankly I've never understood Chris's problem with USS, ...

Now you know!

Chris Mason

P.S. Please take the trouble actually to read through the initial post of the 
still active thread "A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!", Wed, 21 Mar 2012 
07:34:55 -0500.


On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 11:54:33 -0700, Ron Hawkins <ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:

>John,
>
>Frankly I've never understood Chris's problem with USS, except that he may
>suffer from some sort of OCD reaction when he sees those letters.
>
>We all know that USS stands for Unix System Services, and any other
>employment of the acronym with the Mainframe community should spell out that
>it is not using this accepted, commonplace, default meaning.
>
>VTAM Unformatted System Services is one good example, where authors should
>discipline themselves to explain that they are not referring to Unix System
>Services rather than confusing everyone by hijacking this acronym.
>
> ...
>
>Ron

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